Sentence examples for win some time from inspiring English sources

"win some time" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to encourage someone to take an action before a certain deadline, or to refer to a successful attempt to buy some extra time. For example: "We need to figure out a way to win some time so that we can finish this project before the end of the month."

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"The American team appear very, very strong this year and you get this feeling that after all these defeats the USA have to win some time soon.

Mostly phrases of arias I will be singing in public the next days… it's a good way to win some time!

I say this every year and I'm going to repeat myself because I think he really should win some time soon: another possibility is John Pendry at Imperial College London, for his theoretical work on metamaterials (invisibility cloaks to you and me).

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"We have won some time but we must continue an hour-by-hour surveillance," he said.

Harold Abrahams seemed grief-stricken after his 100m gold in 1924 - when a friend asked him why, he replied: "Maybe you should try winning some time".

Singapore's long-serving administration has won some time to ponder how it will deal with yet another self-inflicted blow to its global branding.

Rather, their recent misfortune adds perspective to the World Cup victory, making it even more plain that the biggest prize of all was won some time after the team had reached its peak and begun an inevitable decline.

Then sit back, crack a can of your favourite fizzy pop and mess about on YouTube until you find out whether or not you won (some time tomorrow evening).

Mrowiec is hoping to win some game time ahead of the 19 May Hampden final against city neighbours Hibernian.

It didn't matter that they won all the time, it didn't matter that they lost all the time, it just mattered that they had to win some of the time and they had to put up a fight and they had to argue for the demand and the equation and for the idea that workers were not worth less, they were worth more.

Not only will the underdog — Mr. Romney — win some of the time, but he should win some of the time if we have estimated the odds correctly.

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